The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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This is the use of memory:
For liberation-not less of love but expanding
Of love beyond desire, and so liberation
From the future as well as the past.
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This is the death of earth.
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